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Lyle Estill author reading - "Small is Possible"
Forget Homeland Security – Let’s Create Hometown Security!
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| Network: | Global |
Time and Place| Date: | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| Time: | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
| Location: | Internationalist Books |
| Street: | 405 W Franklin St |
| City/Town: | Chapel Hill, NC |
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Contact Info| Phone: | 9199341740 |
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Find out how at Internationalist Books and Community Center on
Thursday, July 31st at 7 PM, as we welcome author and activist Lyle
Estill for a reading from his new book, Small Is Possible. This
passionate, insightful book introduces us to "hometown security," with
this chronicle of a community-powered response to resource depletion in
a fickle global economy. True stories, springing from the soils of
Chatham County, North Carolina, offer a positive counter balance to the
bleakness of our age. This is the story of how one small southern US
town found actual solutions to actual problems. Unwilling to rely on
government and wary of large corporations, these residents discovered
it is possible for a community to feed itself, fuel itself, heal itself
and govern itself.
"Think self-reliance is far-fetched in a flat
world? Lyle Estill's Small is Possible shows how it is being done for
food, housing, energy, finance, health care, and just about everything
else communities care about. A seasoned entrepreneur and social
innovator, Estill tells fun-to-read stories that are engaging,
insightful, and practical. His book is an indispensable resource for
community organizers and economic developers alike."
-Michael Shuman, author of "The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition"
Local
resident Lyle Estill is the author of numerous articles, essays, and
blog entries, including the book, Biodiesel Power; the Passion, People
and Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel. He serves as vice-president of
Piedmont Biofuels in Pittsboro, NC.
Date:
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 3:00pm
Location:
Internationalist Books, 405 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
CARRBORO BICYCLE PLAN WORKSHOP
#2
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2008
4:00 – 7:00 pm (DROP-IN
FORMAT)
On CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS (at
the Farmer’s Market)
Thank you for attending the first public workshop for
Carrboro’s bicycle transportation plan, back on April 10th.
The second workshop will be held on July 23, 2008 on the Carrboro Town
Commons, at the Farmers’ Market. Please stop by
anytime between 4:00 - 7:00 PM to learn about preliminary recommendations (this will be new information from the
consultants), talk to Town staff and project consultants, and provide more of
your input to the process.
Attached is a flyer for that meeting. Please feel free
to distribute this so that all Town citizens are informed.
In addition, you can visit the project website: www.greenways.com/pages/CarrboroBicycle.html,
which houses current project information and
contains a link to an online comment form for you to
fill out (if you have not done so
already).
Thank you for your time.
Happy and safe bicycling!
-Town of Carrboro
Adena
Messinger, Transportation Planner
Town
of Carrboro
301
W. Main Street
Carrboro,
NC 27510
919-918-7329
amessinger@townofcarrboro.orgDate:
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Carrboro Town Commons (site of the Farmers' Market on west main street outside the town hall)
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing Van Jones speak. He co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and is founder and president of Green For All. He spoke convincingly of a future of increased equality and how one of the roads to this future is green jobs. Green-collar jobs are employment in the environmental or agricultural sectors of the economy. [Source: Wikipedia] But they also include any work that will help transform our society into a more environmentally sustainable one.
One way our local government leaders could participate in this national movement is to sign the Green Jobs Pledge. Its goal is to "rebuild American competitiveness and environmental leadership by growing a green economy that fights global warming, pollution and poverty at the same time." Here are the five steps this pledge asks our leaders to agree to:
- Commit to Action
- Create a Green-collar Jobs Taskforce
- Identify Goals and Assess Opportunities
- Create a Local Action Plan
- Evaluate, Leverage and Grow
This fall, the Orange County Commissioners are scheduled to approve a new Comprehensive Plan; the first such vote in nearly thirty years! If you work, live or own land in Orange County, the Plan affects you; it sets a vision for how the county will develop over the next 20 years. Please take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of Orange County by voicing your interests and concerns to the Orange County Planning Board and County Commissioners.
Once adopted, the new Comprehensive Plan will begin to impact decisions about our tax base, the kind of jobs and housing created in the county, where new development will occur, what that development will look like, and how we will move about the county.
A friend of mine saw this film and recommended it. It's a documentary about "the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels." Apparently the screening will benefit Chapel Hill's Clean Cities Coalition (not sure who/what that is). From http://www.gasholemovie.com/Tour.html
In lieu of traditional distribution, and due to the important nature of the topic, the Producers have opted to pursue a unique model in which the filmmakers will personally attend the premiere of "GasHole" in dozens of cities. Each screening will be followed by Question and Answers with the filmmakers and some cities will include a local panel of experts.
It is very important to the entire GASHOLE TEAM that this project generate as much good will and practical solutions as possible. In many cities the premiere of the movie will be included in a Benefit Fund Raising Event to raise money for local worthy causes, such as Historical Theater Renovation, Youth Scholarships and local chapters of The Clean Cities Coalition. Each Benefit Event will be unique to that city and organization, but each will include a screening of the Documentary "GasHole" followed by a reception with the filmmakers Jeremy Wagener and Scott D. Roberts.
Time: 2 Screenings and Q & A's, 3:00pm and 5:30pm
Date:
Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 11:00am
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